The mother of a first form student of the Lodge Community High School is moving to transfer her son from the institution, citing escalating violence as her main reason.Delores Grant’s son is the latest victim of the rising violence in school. The lad was held down by a gang of students his age group and stabbed in his abdomen with a sharp object.He received treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital around midday yesterday. His wound does not appear to be life threatening.The young man told this newspaper that he was walking on the school grounds when one of the gang members who is a first former pelted him.He said that he returned the favour and the gang attacked him, pinning him to the ground while one of them stabbed him.According to the injured young man, while his attackers are students of the school, they hardly attend classes.He told Kaieteur News that he reported the matter to the school’s Head teacher who advised him to call his parents, which he did.Grant informed that she was at home when she received the telephone call from her son.“He say ‘mommy four boys just hold me down and stab me’. The headmistress come on and confirm the stabbing, but she say it’s a very complicated story. She tell me that I must come to the school,Wholesale Jerseys Online, collect him, carry he to the station and then bring he to the hospital because she don’t have the time,” Grant stated.She expressed concern at the way the school administration handled the matter.“I know if something happen in school, the teachers suppose to carry them (student) to the station and then to the hospital, but she tell me no, I got to come,” the injured student’s mother told this newspaper.Since she is living in Sophia she could not leave home at the time so after ascertaining the extent of her son’s injury, she advised him to come home.She subsequently took him to the hospital to ensure that the damage was minimal.There have been several reports of violence at the Lodge Community High School and according to Grant, the teachers there are fully aware of the situation.“First thing when they get meetings and you go, how they so proud, they could show you how much tables with ice picks, jukker, cutlass and all these things wha these children does just carry to school,” Grant stated.She said that when she enquired from the Headmistress the whereabouts of her son’s attackers, the senior school official informed her that they don’t attend classes and that she was not aware of their location at the time.However, it was pointed out that an hour after the stabbing, the attackers were seen fully decked in their school uniforms a short distance from the East La Penitence Police Station.Even the police are apparently fed up with receiving reports of violence from the Lodge Community High School.“They (police) say only the other day the teacher bring a whole set of weapons wha de children carry to school. They (school administration) know about it and them ain’t doing nothing. They tell me that they took away the weapon from the child who stab my son. If you ain’t know the child, how you could tek away the weapon and it in the headmistress office to carry to the station tomorrow (today),” Grant told this newspaper.She is adamant that she will not be sending her son back to the Lodge Community High School out of fear that something more serious could happen to him.
